史語所藏內閣大庫檔案緣起

The Origins of the Grand Secretariat Archives Housed at the Institute of History and Philology

史語所藏內閣大庫檔案，原為清廷內閣大庫的一部分，宣統元年大庫整修始被移出，險因「無用」而遭火焚，幸遇羅振玉等人搶救，得以暫時免厄。民國十年，歷史博物館又將其售予同懋增紙店而淪為再造紙，經羅振玉再次購回，復轉賣藏書家李盛鐸，最後在傅斯年先生的奔走下，於民國十八年自李盛鐸處購得。此後為避戰火，曾遷南京、長沙、桂林、昆明、李莊等地，最後來到臺灣。

The documents from Grand Secretariat Archives housed at the Institute of History and Philology were originally part of the Grand Secretariat Archives of the Ch'ing dynasty. When in 1906 the Grand Secretariat Repository, in which archives were stored, was renovated, these documents were moved out and almost burned for they were counted as''useless''. Fortunately, through Chen-yu Lo's effort, they were temporarily salvaged from flame. In 1921 these documents were even sold by the History Museum to a paper-recycling factory named Tong-Mau. Though Chen-yu Lo required them from the factory and saved them again, he had to sell them to a famous books collector Sheng-to Li for shortage of financial support. In 1929 the Institute of History and Philology successfully purchased them from Li through efforts of Ssu-nien Fu. Thereafter, in order to escape from the flames of war, these documents were transferred from Nanjing to Changsha, Guilin, Kumming, Lizhuang, and eventually to Taiwan.